Colonial Period 1600 1775 category: 1137 books
The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 1
Journalist, 1706-1730
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2013
Named "one of the best books of 2006" by The New York Sun
Described by Carl Van Doren as "a harmonious human multitude," Benjamin Franklin was the most famous American of his time, of perhaps any time. His life and careers were so varied and successful that he remains, even...
The Pueblo Revolt
The Secret Rebellion That Drove the Spaniards Out of the Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
The dramatic and tragic story of the only successful Native American uprising against the Spanish, the Pueblo Revolt of 1680.
With the conquest of New Mexico in 1598, Spanish governors, soldiers, and missionaries began their brutal subjugation of the Pueblo Indians in what is today the Southwestern...
Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul
Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
A revelatory look at how Roger Williams shaped the nature of religion, political power, and individual rights in America.
For four hundred years, Americans have wrestled with and fought over two concepts that define the nature of the nation: the proper relation between church and state and...
by Edmund S. Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
"A wise, humane and beautifully written book." —Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal
From the best-selling author of Benjamin Franklin comes this remarkable work that will help redefine our notion of American heroism. Americans have long been obsessed with their heroes, but the men...
Emigrants
Why the English Sailed to the New World
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
'Marvellously engaging' The Times
'Brisk, informative and eye-opening' Daily Telegraph
In the 1600s, vast numbers of people left England for the Americas. Crossing the Atlantic was a major undertaking, the voyage long and treacherous. Why did they go?
Emigrants casts vivid new light...
by K. David Goss
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
What was it like to live in the colony of Massachusetts during the last decade of the 17th century, the decade famed for the Salem Witch Trials? Daily Life during the Salem Witch Trials answers that question, offering a vivid portrait essential to anyone seeking to understand the traumatic events of...
The Mayflower
The Founding Myth of the United States of America
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the story of the Mayflower in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the voyage of the Mayflower. In 1620, a group of Puritans now known as the Pilgrim Fathers set sail for America to...
Political Gastronomy
Food and Authority in the English Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
"The table constitutes a kind of tie between the bargainer and the bargained-with, and makes the diners more willing to receive certain impressions, to submit to certain influences: from this is born political gastronomy. Meals have become a means of governing, and the fate of whole peoples is...
George Washington
A Life in Books
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
When it comes to the Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Alexander Hamilton are generally considered the great minds of early America. George Washington, instead, is toasted with accolades regarding his solid common sense and strength in battle. Indeed, John Adams once snobbishly...
William Wentworth
Puritan Preacher
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2006
William Wentworth, Puritan Preacher, is an examination of the life and times of a lay preacher of the 17th century from Dover, New Hampshire. Baptized in England in 1616, William followed his kinsmen, John Wheelwright and Anne Hutchinson, to Boston. Banished following the Antinomian Controversy, he...
The Pilgrim Chronicles
An Eyewitness History of the Pilgrims and the Founding of Plymouth Colony
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
All Americans are familiar with the story of the Pilgrims—persecuted for their religion in the Old World, they crossed the ocean to settle in a wild and dangerous land. But for most of us, the story ends after their brutal first winter at Plymouth with a supposedly peaceful encounter with the Native...
Who Should Rule at Home?
Confronting the Elite in British New York City
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
In Who Should Rule at Home? Joyce D. Goodfriend argues that the high-ranking gentlemen who figure so prominently in most accounts of New York City’s evolution from 1664, when the English captured the small Dutch outpost of New Amsterdam, to the eve of American independence in 1776 were far from...
by Francis J. Bremer
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
The life of John Davenport, who co-founded the colony of New Haven, has long been overshadowed by his reputation as the most draconian of all Puritan leaders in New England—a reputation he earned due to his opposition to many of the changes that were transforming New England in the post-Restoration...
Glory, Passion, and Principle
The Story of Eight Remarkable Women at the Core of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Much has been written of the brave deeds, acts of heroism, and intellectual prowess of the men who drafted the Declaration of Independence over two hundred years ago, yet almost no attention has been paid to the extraordinary women of that time -- women who helped found our nation with courage, sacrifice,...